Number of Nationally Threatened Species
| Taxa | Extinct | Endangered | Vulnerable | Rare | Total |
| Vascular plants |
23 | 36 | 66 | 95 | 220 |
| Lichens | 81 | 111 | 205 | 177 | 574 |
| Fungi | 31 | 157 | 248 | 442 | 878 |
National Red Data Books
Rødliste 1997 over planter og dyr i Danmark (Red List 1997
of plants and animals in Denmark). M. Stoltze & S. Phil (Eds). 1998.
Miljø- og Energiministeriet, Danmarks Miljøundersøgelser
og Skov- og Naturstyrelsen. (Ministry of Environment and Energy, National
Environmental Research Institute, National Forest and Nature Agency).
The above Red Data Book is the most recent, but Danish biologists are
about to apply the latest IUCN Red List categories. The assessment will
be available on www.dmu.dk under the headline
‘Om DMU/overvågning’, ‘Fagdatacenter for Biodiversitet
og Terrestriske Naturdata’ on the next page and ‘Den danske
Rødliste’ on the third. The Danish redlist assessment will
be a continuous process with annual updates. In future access in English
may also be offered.
Red Data Book of the Baltic Region. Part 1. T. Ingelög, R.
Anderson & M. Tjernberg (Eds). 1993. Swedish Threatened Species Unit,
Uppsala, Sweden. Includes threatened vascular plants from Finland, Sweden,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany and Denmark
Floras
Dansk feltflora. K. Hansen (Ed.) 2002. 9th ed. Gyldendal,
København. The second volume of Flora Nordica has been issued.
Flora Nordica, vols 1, 2 and General Volume. Bengt Jonsell (ed.).
Pp. 344, 430, 274. 2000, 2001, 2004. (Bergius Foundation, Sweden). Flora Nordica,
Department of Phanerogamic Botany, Swedish Museum of Natural History, P.O.
Box 50007, SE-104 05 Stockholm, Sweden. Covers Denmark and the Faeroe Islands,
Finland, Iceland, Norway and associated Arctic islands, and Sweden. 15 vols
projected. Plant Talk review
of Vol. 1; Vol. 2 covers Chenopodiaceae to Fumariaceae. Available from
Koeltz Scientific Books.
Illlustrated Flora of Nordic Liverworts and Hornworts. K. Damsholt.
2002. Nordic Bryological Society, Lund, Sweden. (Coverage includes Faeroe
Is., Jan Mayen, Svalbard, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Finland & Denmark.)
Vegetation
95% of land surface intensively or extensively modified, 60% by agriculture at present but with a peak of 75% in the 20th century. Remaining pockets of natural and semi-natural vegetation include forests of oak (Quercus robur and to a lesser extent Q. petraea) and beech (Fagus sylvatica), sand-dunes mainly along the west coast, salt marshes mainly in the Wadden Sea and other protected coastal areas, scattered coastal and inland heaths, peat bogs, swamps and lakes. Natural forests and dry grassland have suffered the greatest species loss and habitat disturbance. Forest occupy about 12% of which two thirds are spruce and pine plantations.
Plant Conservation Programmes
27 proposed Sites of Community Importance have been reported to the European Commission under the Habitats Directive to conserve plants on Annex II of the Directive.
Key Institutions
Danish Forest and Nature
Agency, 53 Haraldsgade, DK-2100 Copenhagen.
Botanical Museum and Library,
Gothersgade 130, DK-1123 Copenhagen K.
Botanical Garden, Ø.
Farimagsgade 2B, DK-1323 Copenhagen K.
Dansk Botanisk Forening (Danish
Botanical Society), Sølvgade 83, DK-1307
Copenhagen K.
National Environmental Research Institute,
Department of Wildlife Ecology and Biodiversity, Grenaavej 12, DK-8410
Ronde.
Herbaria
Botanical Museum & Library,
University of Copenhagen, Botanical Museum, Gothersgade 130, DK-1123 Copenhagen
K.
Herbarium Jutlandicum (AAU), Bygning 137,
Universitetsparken, DK-8000 Aarhus C.
Acknowledgement
This page, originally written in 2000–2001 based on material prepared for the Council of Europe, was extensively updated and enlarged in November 2003 by Peter Wind, Department of Wildlife Ecology and Biodiversity, National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark.
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